How did Ubuntu gain position from Red Hat? What changed?

Easy enough for a Linux noob like me to install it with no problems.

Hey! May 3rd was the 30th anniversary of the first Spam message.

Red Hat's always been marketed as enterprise (but we'll give you a personal version if you want to tinker yourself). Ubuntu was the first to really push consumer-friendly installs -- not your-clueless-mom friendly, but the people who might have thought it was a cool idea but didn't quite tip over the edge. And the Live CDs are brilliant -- not that there weren't bootable install CDs before, but the whole "try it out, play around, click one button and we won't hose your other stuff" was huge.

the whole "try it out, play around, click one button and we won't hose your other stuff" was huge

I see that.

I'd always thought that that the Red Hat install was pretty simple. Mostly I can see the difference between Ubuntu and Debian, and totally get why Ubuntu is more popular.

the whole "try it out, play around, click one button and we won't hose your other stuff" was huge

I see that.

I'd always thought that that the Red Hat install was pretty simple. Mostly I can see the difference between Ubuntu and Debian, and totally get why Ubuntu is more popular.

I think Fedora and Suse are pretty easy to install these days as well. I might have to take a look at Suse 11 when it comes out.

I'm tempted to install Slackware again, just for old times' sake....

Within hours of its release, Microsoft's Service Pack 3 for Windows XP began drawing hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking havoc on their PCs.

The problems with XP SP3, according to posters on Microsoft's Windows XP message board, range from spontaneous reboots to outright system crashes.

My XP (SP3) machine *is* my Mac. I wonder if I should worry? Of course, I'm primarily using XP to play the Windows video games I own. So far I've had no problems, but really? The XP interface is so ugly and cludgy compared to Leopard, that for any use other than playing a video game, I reboot back into Leopard.

One definite upside from turning on Boot Camp and making the machine dual boot? For some reason, the computer sleeps and shuts down the hard drive over twice as fast as it did before I made it dual boot. I'm thinking it's part of the Boot Camp code, but when the machine was Leopard only, it sometimes took almost thirty seconds to sleep after closing the lid. Now it's practically instantaneous.

When I get around to pulling all the Windows files I want off of the old Windows machine, I plan on turning that into an Ubuntu box.

Also, my new memory modules arrived today, so I can bump the Macbook from 2Gb RAM to 4Gb.

Before I do: I can upgrade the memory myself without invalidate my Apple Care, yes?